WEBVTT ATIENT WHO IS IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF THIS POLITICAL FIGHTFIGHT.>> I'M 30 YEARS OLD AND I'M PERMANENTLY DISABLED.>> TO BEAT BACK THE PAIN AND ANGUISH OF A SEVERE INFLAMMATORYCONDITION THAT KEEPS HER AWAKE AT NIGHT.>> I STRUGGLE TO JUST SLEEP.>> HILL, A FORMER SOCCER ATHLETEIN COLLEGE, NOW HAS TROUBLE MOVING.>> AND THEN I BECAME DISABLED.SO I COULDN'T WORK ANYMORE AND MY FINANCIAL SITUATION CHANGED.SO I THEN BECAME A RECIPIENT OF MEDICAID.AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EXISTED.OTHERWISE, I WOULDN'T HAVE INSURANCE AT ALL.>> HILL WORRIES HER PREEXISTING CONDITION MAY MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO GET COVERAGE UNDER THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE ACT.BUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INSISTS THAT PEOPLE LIKE KARIS LE BE TAKEN CARE OF.>> THIS IS A DIFFERENT AND WE BELIEVE A BETTER WAY TO COVER INDIVIDUAL WITH PREEXISTING ILLNESSES AND INJURIES BECAUSE IT ALLOWS FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON TO GET THE ACCESS TO THE KIND OF COVERAGE THAT THEY WANT.>> BUT IN A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWWITH KCRA 3 TODAY, CONGRESSMAN JOHN, A FORMER CALIFORNIAN INSURANCE COMMISSIONER SAYS COVERAGE FOR PREEXISTING CONDITIONS WILL NOW BE LEFT UP TO THE STATES UNDER THE TRUMP PLAN THAT INCLUDES A BILLION DOLLARS FOR HIGH-RISK PATIENTS.>> THAT'S $4 PER PERSON THAT HASA SERIOUS PREEXISTING CONDITION.SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.IT IS A CRUEL, CRUEL JOKE ON THEAMERICAN PUBLIC.>> THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SICKER, WHO ARE OLDER, WHO ARE POORER, THEY WILL GET LARGER SUBSIDIES SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO GAIN THE COVERAGE THAT THEY NEED AND WANT FOR THEMSELVES ANDTHEIR FAMILY.>> FEINSTEIN SAID TODAY DON'T REPEAL OBAMA CARE.TAKE THOSE SECTIONS LIKE THE INDIVIDUAL MARKET, WHICH HAS SOME PROBLEMS IN IT, AND DEAL WITH IT, AND FIX THOSE SECTIONS.>> BUT WHILE CONGRESS DEBATES THE NATION'S HEALTHCARE FUTURE CARICE TOLD US SHE FEELS LIKE A

In California, there is plenty of division over the efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

“I'm 30 and I'm permanently disabled,” said Sacramento resident Charis Hill, a patient who get health care coverage through Obamacare.

Hill takes multiple medications every day to beat back the pain and the anguish of a severe inflammatory condition that keeps her awake at night.

“I struggle to sleep,” Hill said. “I struggle to hit the buttons on the microwave to make food.”

Hill, a former soccer athlete in college, now has trouble moving.

“I became disabled, so I couldn't work anymore,” she said. “And my financial situation changed and so then I became a recipient of Medicaid. And that's because the Affordable Care Act existed. Otherwise, I wouldn't have health care at all.”

Hill worries her pre-existing condition may make it difficult to get coverage under the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare. But, the Trump administration insists people like Hill will be taken care of under the act.

“What I believe they are not recognizing is this is a different and, we believe, a better way to cover individuals with pre-existing illnesses and injuries,” said Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services under Trump. “It allows for every single person to get access to the kind of coverage they want.”

Rep. John Garamendi, a former California Insurance Commissioner, said coverage for pre-existing conditions will now be left up to the states under the Trump plan, which includes $8 billion for high-risk patients.

“That is $4 per person that has a serious pre-existing condition spread out across the United States,” said Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove. “It is a cruel, cruel joke on the American public."

Garamendi denounced the House vote to repeal Obamacare.

“I was in a body of people who actually voted to harm Americans,” Garamendi said. “It's $14 billion that California will not receive a year to support the people that are on MediCal in California.”

The Trump administration insists the new health care plan will provide more freedom of choice.

“Those individuals who are sicker, who are older, who are poorer, they will get larger subsidies,” Price said. “So, they are able to gain the kind of coverage that they need and want for themselves and for their family. Nobody wants folks with a pre-existing injury or illness not to be covered. We want to make certain that we can do it at a lower price and broader choices for patients so that again, they are able to see a doctor that they want to see. They're able to go to the hospital that they want to go to.”

The plan now goes to the U.S. Senate, where California’s Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday, “Don't repeal Obamacare. Take the sections like the individual market which has some problems in it and deal with it and fix those sections.”

While Congress debates the nation’s health care future, Hill said she feels like a pawn in a game.